To trample
בּוּסStrong’s H0947bus
Appears in 12 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Bus is the Hebrew word usually translated “tread down”, “have trodden down” and “kicking about”. It appears in 12 verses of the Old Testament.
“And they shall be as mighty men, which tread down their enemies in the mire of the streets in the battle: and they shall fight, because the LORD is with them, and the riders on horses shall be confounded.”
Meaning
- To tread down, reject, trample down(Qal) · (Polel) · (Hithpolel) · (Hophal) to be trodden down
How it's translated
- he will tread down 2
- they have trodden down 2
- kicking about 2
- we tread down 1
- it treads down 1
- trodden down 1
- i will tread down it 1
- and i may tread down 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 4
- Psalms 3
- Ezekiel 2
- Proverbs 1
- Jeremiah 1
- Zechariah 1
6 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Psalms 44:5Through thee will we push down our enemies: through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us.
- Psalms 60:12Through God we shall do valiantly: for he it is that shall tread down our enemies.
- Psalms 108:13Through God we shall do valiantly: for he it is that shall tread down our enemies.
- Proverbs 27:7The full soul loatheth an honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.
- Isaiah 14:19But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcase trodden under feet.
- Isaiah 14:25That I will break the Assyrian in my land, and upon my mountains tread him under foot: then shall his yoke depart from off them, and his burden depart from off their shoulders.
Hebrew dictionary
בּוּס bus · to trample
1) to tread down, reject, trample down 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to tread down, trample (of warriors) 1a2) of rejection (fig.) 1b) (Polel) 1b1) to tread down (in bad sense) 1b2) to desecrate 1c) (Hithpolel) 1c1) to tread 1c2) to kick out 1c2a) of infants' blind movements 1c2b) of Jerusalem (fig.) 1d) (Hophal) to be trodden down
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “trample” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
TRAM'PLE, verb transitive
- To tread under foot; especially, to tread upon with pride, contempt, triumph or scorn.“Neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet” Matthew 7:6
- To tread down; to prostrate by treading; as, to trample grass.
- To treat with pride, contempt and insult.
All definitions and other forms of “trample”
TRAM'PLE, verb intransitive
To tread in contempt.
- To tread with force and rapidity.
TRAM'PLE, noun
The act of treading under foot with contempt.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.